A bridge built across a railway cutting near Vendelles, in France, by the 12th Field Company of ...

Accession Number E03708
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Hindenburg Outpost Line Area, Vendelles
Date made 27 September 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A bridge built across a railway cutting near Vendelles, in France, by the 12th Field Company of Australian Engineers, with materials salvaged from captured German dumps. This structure, built alongide a destroyed German brick arch bridge, and constructed of timber trestles and rolled steel joists, had a total span of 86 feet, was 32 feet high, and took an axle load of 14 tons.